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vfosnar··on Apple Maps puts all buildings back in Gaza
This is satellite imagery. Its common for this to be outdated af, especially outside of EU/US. It costs A LOT to process these compared to just switching a single label in a database.

If there's anything to worry about it's that MS will stop providing aerial imagery to https://www.hotosm.org/ as it seems they slowly give up on Bing maps altogether. Cool they atl donated em so far.

vfosnar··on Launch HN: Momentic (YC W24) – Agents that catch bugs by using your app
> Momentic invited you to work together

so apparently they automatically hand over your email to Slack to contact you upon login even tho I don't remember this being mentioned anywhere at all. I went to check the Momentic settings and theres a Notifications section with Slack turned off...

used my public email so idc but others may

vfosnar··on Show HN: Subvocal – Talk to your computer without making noise
And can I connect them to a custom server if I wanted to / how locked down will be the sw running on them?
vfosnar··on LongCat-2.5: Native Multimodality for Agentic Tasks
it started typing backward on firefox lol (resetting cursor to the beginning after every typed character)

after i managed to actually type Hello it did 25 web searches and responded in likely to be Mandarin, I didn't care checking. Likely their web harness just sucks.

vfosnar··on License update: AI derivation prohibited on all my art, lore, stories, comics
uh, also writing it next to cc sounds like a dumb idea, as it makes it a bit of a legal hell? like as long as its not an explicit exception to the cc license like llvm does with their license this seems pretty ambiguous what license really applies here
vfosnar··on New CRAM method offers giant boost to compressed memory reads
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-CRAM-Compressed-RAM